The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, this is Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, here with a Slate, spoiler special podcast on Avengers Age of Ultron.

Did I get that title right, Matt?

I believe you did.

No the the, The, right?

There's no the Avengers, colon, age of Ultron.

And the voice you hear with me in the Slate studio is Matt Singer.

Hey, Matt.

Hi, how's it going? Matt, you are a managing editor

at Screen Crush. I am. And one of the reasons I wanted to have you, well, I thought of you, first

of all, is the right guest for this because I thought, I want someone who is a comics person, but not

the comic book guy, right? And somebody who sort of knows this whole series, but also kind of can approach it with a certain whimsy. And then, unbeknownst to me, the day before we were going to record, you went to a 24-hour.

27-hour.

Oh, sorry, excuse me, 27-hour more than a day long.

Give me the full credit I deserve for my lunacy.

It's a Marvel Marathon, essentially covering Iron Man, the first Iron Man from 2008 all the way through and including Avengers Age of Ultron.

That's right. Yes. Some insane theater in New York decided to collaborate with Marvel in putting on, right, in advance of the big opening.

That's exactly right. And for most of the people there, that was the, they were seeing Avengers Age of Ultron for the first time at the end of this thing, at the end of 24 and a half hours or whatever it was. So they were seeing Avengers Age of Ultron for the first time at the end of this thing,

at the end of 24 and a half hours or whatever it was.

So they were seeing all the official Marvel Cinematic Universe movies,

starting with Ironman, as you said, going through every single one,

which can be a blessing and a curse in some cases.

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